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Letters .Patent No. l78,855, dated Tune 16, 1868; antedatcd June 4, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN Music-TYPE.

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To ALL wHoM 1T MAY coNcERN:

Iie'it known that I, EDWARD L. BALCH, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk, and .State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and improved Music-Type, and that the following description, taken in-connection with the accompanying'dr'awings, hereinafter referred to, forms afull and exact specification ofthe same, wherein I have set forth the nature and principles of my said improvements, by which my invention may be distinguished from all others of a similar class, 'together withsuch parts as I claim, and desire to have'secured to me by Letters Patent.

The present'invention relates to a. type `for printing music-charts for use in schools, seminaries, &c., the object of the invention being toprint suchv charts with ligneous type, as with movable metallic types, andas the distance' at which the charts are required to he seen arid read is great, ,thick` and heavy lines for the musical steif, as well as the stems of the notes, are required, which fact has necessitated a peculiar construction of the type, to be now described, whereby they could bejoined and connected together, so as to produce a chart or print of the perfectness and evenness of lines and'notes desired.

In the accompanying plate'of drawings my limproved wooden type is illustrated- Eigure 1 being a plan view of a series of types constructed according to thc present invention, which type are place or set together, so as to more fully show the present invention; and

Figure 2 an'end view of fourtypes placed alongside of each other, in which view the'jointingl ofthe types Atogether is shown.

A, in the drawings, represents a series of wood types made according to the present invention, the musical characters of which correspond with those now in common use; and in order that the types A may be joined together, so as to produce continuous and unbroken `lines for the musical staii, and at the Sametime secure the interpostion of the notes, as desired, I formrsuch ones of the types as may be foundnecessaryto secure their perfect setting up, with right-angular shaped shoulders, B, as shown more particularly in fig. 2, to allow them to so overlap each other as to produce the print or impression desired.

In these wooden types, right-angular or square-shaped shoulders are necessary, and they must be of same thickness, or otherwise, in taking an impression, the wood would be apt to be clipped o1 broken olf, from the pressure then upon them. l

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent- I The wooden type for printing musical charts, provided with right-angular shoulders B, overlapping each other, whereby continuous and unbroken lines for the musical stati` and vnotes are formed, as herein shown and described. p

EDWARD L. BALCH.

Witnesses:

JOHN HAYES, WM. L. BALcH. 

